[Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

[guy keren]

this is oops-dependent - but i tihnk this is generaly a software bug.

some oopses cause the machine to freeze and you need to reboot. some 
other times, they just cause a user-space process to terminate - and you 
can continue working normally.

in general, i think the old myths are not true today. it _could_ be that 
an oops is generated by a hardware problem - but this is not the common 
case any more.

--guy

Eli Billauer wrote:
> Thanks, but it looks like I wasn't clear about it: My issue is not to 
> solve the specific problem. The question is that if I should bother, or 
> just wait.
> 
> 
> In ancient times, an oops meant I had no choice. The computer was dead. 
> But judging by how the interface communicates with me (something like 
> "file a report, we'll handle this") I wonder if an oops has joined the 
> family of just another software crash.
> 
> 
>    Eli
> 
> 
> Shachar Raindel wrote:
> 
>> Try a quick google search for the warning:
>> http://www.google.co.il/search?q=+WARNING%3A+at+arch%2Fx86%2Fkernel%2Fhpet.c%3A390&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
>>
>> It might be problem with hpet and freq-scaling not playing nicely with
>> each other.
>>
>> --Shachar
>>
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>>
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